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I've bottled two batches using the Tastybrew priming calculator with dextrose from my LHBS.Neither of the brews carbonated much after several weeks at room temps. In fact, other than very slight sediment which may be yeast or may be random crap from the brews, it doesn't appear to have done much...

I'm really interested in upgrading my boil kettle this weekend since I've got 3 days off but I'm running into issues finding 60 qt kettles at all. Does anyone have recommendations for brick and mortar stores that sell them?

I used to keg, but realized I didn't like it so I've moved back to bottling. I've got a large selection of bottle shapes which I've been correlating with caps to keep track of flavor, but sometimes I run out of caps and sometimes i run out of bottles of the same shape. I don't want to label...

Last year, I think as my second batch and last planned extract batch, I brewed up some of Yuri's Thunderstruck Pumpkin Ale. While it's a good beer, and it was LOVED at my company's Christmas party, I didn't like it because it contained pumpkin. Live and learn. Because I didn't like it, I've...

I had the good fortune to find HBT before I had hundreds of bottles, so I skipped botting totally and went right to kegging. Let me tell you, kegging is NOT the natural prograssion. Eath method of containing your nectar has it's benefits and drawbacks. I managed to get lucky, finding a...

I decided to start a new thread to showcase my photos rather than bogging down the official thread.

I'm sitting here dowing pint after pint of my special bitter and I realized I'm druck. More than that, I realized I'm debating quietly between HomeBrewTalk's ever-changing banter or my new issue of Brew Your Own magazine. Considering that this is my hardest choice of the night, life rocks...

For the past 5 or 6 weeks, I've been not brewing. Normally, I would brew every week. Three weeks ago I tried to brew but ended up with my first stuck sparge. I started in a bad mood which was proably part of the cause, but I wasn't in the mood to salvage that brew so I don't count it. I...

I've spent the past 3.5 years paying off a car that I've come to hate. Today, I'm done! Paid off the remaining balance and it's MINE!

My coffee maker broke last week, so I've been relying on 7-11 and Dunkin Doughnuts for coffee. I don't like it. So today my "morning coffee" was replaced with a morning beer. And I am a HUGE coffee drinker so I am currently druck. I'm speculating that this might become a new weekend pastime. :mug:

The homebrew spirit is that of "do it yourself", pride in craftsmanship and a desire to be self-reliant. I figure the same thing runs in the veins of coffee roasters too (and computer people - the number of GNU/Linux users on this forum is unusually high all things considered). Firstly, I'm...

This Christmas my mother in law got me a recipe kit. On one hand, that's VERY cool since her gift was certainly tuned in to me, an knowing next to nothing about beer, she didn't do too bad. :) It was a MoreBeer Christmas Ale extract kit. I've been brewing all-grain for a while now so when...

My wife has been without a car for a while. She's got very eccclectic tastes and has had her heart set on a manual Honda Civic hatchback. Unfortunately, the newer models (2002+) have power steering but the older ones do not. Anyway... Her "requirements" are a bit specific Yesterday, she found...

I bought myself a Barley Crusher last weekend and it will be on my doorstep this coming Thursday, I'm SO excited. Anyway, I've got no grain. :) I love doing bitters and just about anything that's lineage traces back to England. That said a 55# sack of MO is already on my list to buy. I...

Chex Mix is about as basic as it gets, really, but I am never content to settle for plain stuff so I decided to mix my my Chex Mix up. Firstly, at the beginning I thought this recipe sucked. I ate more and more of it as I drank various beers (I personally think Killian's and this go well...

This place is a mess but I'm damn proud of it so I'm showing it off. I've got a black table where I keep my secondary stage brews so they can be kegged without being disturbed much. This specific shot was taken today when I was racking my bitter to secondary. This table is about...

Okay, so I built a stirplate for my yeast harvesting. It worked spectacularly for the first 10 or so generations of yeast when it magically began throwing the stirbar (both pre-fab and homemade) 100% of the time. There's criticism of mechanical stirring mechanisms because of the contact which...

Okay, this is a tad long so please bear with me. My wife and I moved into this apartment in April 2006 for a 1 year lease. The lease made us responcible for utilities "named below" being water, gas and electricity. It stipulated that the utilities must be switched into our name and that upon...

Okay, so... As a "beginning" brewer, I learned I didn't like "The C Hops"... Cascade, Centennial... My brewing schedules have, for the most part, been focused around avoiding these hop varieties because I KNEW I didn't like them. Well, today I'm drinking my umpteenth liter of horribly...

I've only used liquid yeast thus far, except for Ed's apfelwein. All of my beers have been using Wyeast or White Labs's yeast strains. I've heard arguments on either side of which is "best" and have come to the conclusion that different strains are best suited for different jobs. That...